[2022] [Focus Feedback and Bug Reporting] Shell Company Mitigations

Greetings Adventurers,

We have introduced the following changes to help mitigate Shell Companies and their potential impact on the worlds.

Shell Company Mitigations

We will implement the following changes to make shell Companies less effective at owning multiple territories:

• Daily War Limit
  • Players will have a limit of 1 defensive War and 1 attacking War per world (resets daily at 5AM server time). These limits will apply to both even if you have two different characters in the same world.
• War Roster Restrictions
  • Participating Companies will have a limited number of Mercenaries they can recruit.
    • Attacking Companies: Up to 40 mercenaries.
    • Defending Companies: Up to 15 mercenaries.
    • The remaining slots are reserved for their Company members.
• Company Switching Cooldowns
  • When leaving a Company, players will start a 72 hour cooldown on fighting in a defensive War and earning Influence for any Company toward War declaration eligibility. The cooldown begins once a player leaves. Any Influence earned will still count towards the player’s Faction.

The team has posed a question; please feel free to copy and paste the following as a template:

• Do these changes seem effective at stopping the best 50 PVPers on a server from owning the entire map via shell companies? (Our target is about 2 territories max for one company, and no viable shell companies for territory control)

Thank you for your help!

If you are experiencing a bug, please utilize the following template:

• What is your character name in the PTR:
• What server/world did you experience your issue on:
• Describe the issue you are experiencing:
• Is this a bug or an exploit:
• (if a bug) How did the issue effect your gameplay:
• (if a bug) Were you able to recover from the issue:
• (if a bug) Please include a screenshot or video of the issue that you have experienced:
• What are the steps to reproduce the issue as you experienced:
• What was your RTT / Input Latency?

You can find resources on how to leave good feedback in the How to Give High Quality Feedback post.

Your help in keeping feedback unrelated to the issue above regarding the Shell Company Mitigations out of this focus thread is much appreciated!

Thank you for helping make New World the best game it can be!

See you in Aeternum!

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